In a blistering expose based on interviews with policy makers and a catalog of damning statistics, journalist Dan Baum shows how America's war on drugs went from a politically potent campaign play to today's multibillion-dollar government boondoggle--a 'war' that's run roughshod over Constitutional rights and put a quarter of young black men behind bars without so much as denting the demand for drugs. Learn More

Elvis Presley, the Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, the Beatles, Judy Garland, Hank Williams, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash, JFK, the Manson Family and Adolf Hitler. All of the above were, at one time or another, to put it bluntly, speedfreaks. Learn More

Have you ever really looked at a book? The state of being high rewards deep attention, and lots of things can seem really, really interesting. It might be a spot on the ceiling, or an oddly-shaped tortilla chip, or a bit of wood grain. Learn More

STARVING TEEN GIRL FOUND CHAINED TO BED MARYLAND COUPLE ARRESTED FOR CHAINING GIRL TO BED FOR HAVING BAD REPORT CARD... the headlines screamed. But what really happened on that spring morning? What really led up to the events of that horrific morning in June 2006? Learn More